Interesting Snippets

See Virtual Screening page for Interesting virtual snippets
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HealthMap
http://www.healthmap.org


Antibacterial Resistance Maps and Infographics (CDDEP):
https://resistancemap.cddep.org/AntibioticResistance.php



Discovery of Plasmids - Stanley Falkow (Lasker Award Winner)
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/show/founder-of-molecular-microbial-pathogenesis/


Zika and your friend (but Zika's enemy) - Wolbachia endosymbiont
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/science/zika-virus-moquitoes-microbe.html?_r=0

Quantum Computing
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3065422/cloud-computing/ibm-makes-quantum-computing-available-in-the-cloud.html

Telling Tall Tales about Public Health
http://news.utexas.edu/2015/10/05/global-public-health-messages-should-tell-stories

Correlation does not equal causality.....Interesting comparisons of trends that are not necessarily dependent.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations


Stressed out? - check out this TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU

Chemistry Advent Calendar
http://www.compoundchem.com/2014advent/


Diabetes or Bacterial Defense? (4 min video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhD-RWNL6c

How many pills does it take to treat Tuberculosis?

http://youtu.be/CSvLwb6ng5o


What a PAIN is drug discovery?
http://www.nature.com/news/chemistry-chemical-con-artists-foil-drug-discovery-1.15991?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Alternative Antibacterial Production Pathway
http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/43110/title/Alternate-Pathways-Yield-New-Antibiotics/

CRISPR/CAS9 antibiotic
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/42992/title/Targeting-Antibiotic-Resistant-Bacteria-with-CRISPR-and-Phages/

It May Be Too Late
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43073/title/WHO-OKs-Plan-to-Fight-Antibiotic-Resistance/